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Turkish hadith project presents Prophet Mohammad’s sayings for the 21st Century

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(The new seven-volume encyclopaedia of hadiths is pictured at the library of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate in Ankara May 21, 2013.  REUTERS/Umit Bektas)

Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad’s sayings that might scrap those it thought were out of date.
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May 22, 2013

Turkey presents Prophet’s sayings for the 21st Century

ANKARA, May 22 (Reuters) – Scholars around the Muslim world
were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned
a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad’s
sayings that might scrap those it thought were out of date.

Turkish religious leaders and theologians received anxious
calls asking about Western media reports they would edit a
“radical” new set of hadiths, scriptures that are second only to
the Koran in Islam.
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      "As Religion Editor, my job is to coordinate religion news coverage with our bureaus around the world. Based in Paris, I also run our FaithWorld blog and report mostly about Christianity and Islam in Europe and related moral issues such as bioethics. Since joining Reuters in 1977 in London, I've been a correspondent, bureau chief and editor in Vienna, Geneva, Islamabad, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Bonn and Paris. My book Unchained Eagle: Germany after the Wall was published in 2000. In 2006, I received the European Religion Writer of the Year award."
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